Sirajganj

Sirajganj is a city in north-western Bangladesh on the right bank of the Jamuna River, in Rajshahi Division, and the administrative headquarters of Sirajganj District and Sirajganj Sadar Upazila. It lies about 110 kilometres north-west of Dhaka. Under British rule it was a town of Pabna District and the chief river market for jute in northern Bengal, with several jute presses, until the 1897 Assam earthquake closed the mills and shifted the river away. It was not joined to the railway until 1915, when the Sara-Sirajganj line opened, and Narayanganj eclipsed it as a river port. The city today has two medical schools, eight colleges, and sights such as the Jamuna Bridge and the Elliott Bridge, and it was the home of the Islamic scholar and politician Maulana Bhashani.